Universal Manipulation Interface
Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) is an open-source system for collecting robot manipulation training data with a handheld, camera-equipped gripper instead of an actual robot.
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Universal Robots
Universal Robots A/S is a Danish manufacturer of collaborative robots, commonly called cobots, headquartered in Odense, Denmark, and the company widely credited with creating the first commercially viable…
V-JEPA 2
V-JEPA 2 (Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture 2) is an open-source video world model released by Meta AI on June 11, 2025 that learns to understand, predict, and plan in the physical world by…
VersaBot VB-1
The VersaBot VB-1 is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Lanxin Robotics (Hangzhou Lanxin Technology Co., Ltd.) of Hangzhou, China, that Lanxin unveiled on August 23, 2024, at the 2024 World Robot Conference…
VinMotion Motion 1
Motion 1 (also written as Motion_1) is the first-generation general-purpose humanoid robot developed by VinMotion, a robotics subsidiary of the Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup.
Vision-based tactile sensor
A vision-based tactile sensor, also called an optical or camera-based tactile sensor, is a category of tactile sensing that measures touch by watching it rather than by reading a strain gauge, a capacitor, or…
Vision-language-action model
A vision-language-action model (VLA model, or VLA) is a machine-learning model for robotics that uses visual observations and a natural-language instruction to generate actions a robot can execute.
WIRobotics ALLEX
ALLEX (short for ALL-EXperience) is a general-purpose humanoid robot developed by WIRobotics, a South Korean robotics company founded by former Samsung engineers.
Walden Robotics
Walden Robotics is an American robotics company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that builds wheeled, two-armed general-purpose robots for factories and warehouses.
Wandercraft
Wandercraft is a French robotics company, headquartered in Paris, that designs and builds self-balancing walking exoskeletons and, more recently, an industrial humanoid robot.
Wang Xingxing
Wang Xingxing (Chinese: 王兴兴; born 1990) is a Chinese roboticist and entrepreneur who founded Unitree Robotics in Hangzhou in August 2016 and is its chairman, general manager and chief technology officer.
Warehouse automation
Warehouse automation is the use of machinery, control software, and increasingly machine learning to move, store, sort, and pick goods inside distribution centers and fulfillment centers.
Warehouse robot
A warehouse robot is an AI-driven machine that automates the movement, storage, picking, sorting, and inventory management of goods inside warehouses, distribution centers, and fulfillment facilities.
Waseda University
Waseda University (早稲田大学, Waseda Daigaku) is a private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, founded on 21 October 1882 by Ōkuma Shigenobu and best known in artificial intelligence and robotics as the…
Waymo
Waymo LLC is an American autonomous driving technology company and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. that develops the Waymo Driver, a Level 4 autonomous driving system, and operates Waymo One
Weave Robotics
Weave Robotics is an American robotics startup based in San Francisco that is building a personal home robot named Isaac.
Wheeled-legged robot
A wheeled-legged robot (also called a wheel-legged or hybrid wheeled-legged robot) is a mobile robot that combines wheels with articulated legs so it can roll efficiently across flat, continuous ground while…
Whole-body control
Whole-body control (WBC) is a class of robotics control techniques that coordinates all of a robot's degrees of freedom at once to achieve multiple prioritized tasks, such as balancing, reaching, and…
Wing (drone delivery)
Wing Aviation LLC, which trades as Wing, is an American drone delivery operator and a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It began in 2012 as Project Wing inside X, Alphabet's research lab, and graduated to an…
World Humanoid Robot Games
World Humanoid Robot Games is a multi-event robotics competition series launched in Beijing in 2025.
World action model
A world action model (WAM) is a robot policy design that builds action generation on a video world model backbone rather than on a vision-language model, so that a single network jointly predicts how a scene…
Wuji Hand
The Wuji Hand is a five-finger dexterous hand developed by Wuji Tech, a Chinese robotics company that grew out of the Shanghai motor maker Pan Motor.
XPENG PX5
The XPENG PX5 is a bipedal humanoid robot prototype developed by XPENG Robotics (formally Shenzhen Pengxing Intelligence Co., Ltd.)
XPeng IRON
XPeng IRON is a full-size humanoid robot developed by Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng, standing 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) tall and weighing about 70 kg.
Xiao Tuo
Xiao Tuo (Chinese: 小拓) is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by Guangdong Topstar Technology Co., Ltd., a publicly listed Chinese industrial automation company headquartered in Dongguan, Guangdong Province.
Xiaomi CyberDog
The Xiaomi CyberDog (Chinese: 铁蛋, pinyin Tiědàn, literally "Iron Egg") is a family of low-cost, open-source, bio-inspired quadruped robots developed by Xiaomi's Robotics Lab in Beijing.
Xiaomi CyberOne
Xiaomi CyberOne is a full-size bipedal humanoid robot developed by the Xiaomi Robotics Lab, part of the Chinese technology company Xiaomi.
Xynova Flex 1
The Xynova Flex 1 is a high-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven dexterous hand built by Xynova (Chinese: 曦诺未来), a Hangzhou robotics startup founded in December 2024.
Yaskawa Electric
Yaskawa Electric Corporation (株式会社安川電機, Kabushiki-gaisha Yasukawa Denki) is a Japanese industrial automation company, founded in 1915 and headquartered in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, that is one of the…
ZWHAND
ZWHAND is the dexterous-hand brand and robotics subsidiary of Shenzhen Zhaowei Machinery and Electronics Co., Ltd. (兆威机电), a listed Chinese precision micro-transmission and micro-motor manufacturer.
Zapier
Zapier is a no-code web-automation platform, founded in 2011, that connects more than 9,000 software applications and lets people build automated workflows between them without writing code
Zero Moment Point (ZMP)
The Zero Moment Point (ZMP) is the point on the ground where the horizontal component of the moment generated by the contact reaction force vanishes, leaving only a vertical reaction.
Zero-HLM
Zero-HLM (full title: Zero-HLM: Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation without Real Robot Data) is a real-to-sim-to-real research framework for training humanoid robot loco-manipulation policies on…
Zeroth M1
The Zeroth M1 is a compact humanoid robot developed by Zeroth Robotics, an AI robotics company operating under Suzhou JoyIn Intelligent Technology Co.
Zeroth Robotics
Zeroth Robotics (stylized as zeroth) is a robotics company developing interactive artificial intelligence robots for consumer and commercial markets. Zeroth is a brand rather than the legal entity.
Zipline
Zipline International Inc. is an American robotics and autonomous-delivery company, founded in 2014 and headquartered in South San Francisco, California, that designs, manufactures and operates its own…
reBot Arm
reBot Arm is an open-hardware desktop robotic-arm series developed by Seeed Studio for robotics education, teleoperation, and embodied-AI experiments.
π*0.6 (pi-star-0.6)
π*0.6 (written "Pi-star-0.6") is a vision-language-action robot foundation model developed by Physical Intelligence, a San Francisco robotics startup.
π0
π0 (pronounced "pi-zero") is a vision-language-action model for general-purpose robot control developed by Physical Intelligence, a San Francisco-based robotics startup, and introduced on October 31, 2024.
π0.5
π0.5 (also written pi0.5, pi 0.5, or π₀.₅, and pronounced "pi zero point five") is a vision-language-action model developed by the robotics company Physical Intelligence and released on April 22, 2025.
π₀ (pi-zero)
π₀ (pronounced pi-zero and sometimes written pi0 or pizero) is a vision-language-action model (VLA) developed by the robotics foundation-model startup Physical Intelligence